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74th Year No. 224 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, June 8, 1982 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
Israeli forces nearing Beirut
United Press International
Israel's jet fighters bombed PLO head-quarters
in Beirut and its invasion force
swept to within 16 miles ( 25.6 kilometers) of
the Lebanese capital Monday, storming Si- d- on
and seizing Tyre and key, Palestinian
strongholds in south Lebanon.
The United States said it was sending
warships into the eastern Mediterranean for
a possible naval evacuation of Americans af-ter
unidentified rockets hit the U. S. Embas-sy
in Beirut There were no casualties.
In Cairo, Egypt's President Hosni Muba-rak,
condemning the invasion as a " blatant .
violation of peace," froze the Palestinian au-tonomy
talks until all Israeli forces were
withdrawn from Lebanon.
Waves of Israeli fighter- bombe- rs hit Bei-rut
again and again throughout the af-ternoon,
pounding the sports stadium and
the Arab University both major bases and
offices of the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion
and its leader, Yasser Arafat.
An estimated 20,000 Israeli troops, backed
by tanks, struck across southern and central
. Lebanon in the second day of a lightning,
multi- pronge- d invasion to wipe out the PLO
Jets bomb PLO strongholds
and it3 estimated 6,000 guerrillas.
The air strike the second on populated
areas of Beirut since Friday left the Leb-anese
capital blacked out. Beirut's interna-tional
airport was closed, its main runway
cratered by bombs.
Israel said its troops on the Mediterranean
stormed Sidon Lebanon's third largest
city and captured Tyre. Other Israeli col-umns
seized the towns of Hasbaya and Naba- tiy- e
in central Lebanon and the Crusader- er- a
Beaufort Castle overlooking the Israeli bor-der.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa denied
that Tyre and Nabatiyeh had fallen. It con-ceded
street fighting in Nabatiyeh, but said
Israeli troops were being' held outside Tyre
by Palestinian guerrillas, estimated to num-ber
1,500. After the fall of Beaufort, Israel's
Prime Minister Menachem Begin flew by he-licopter
to the hilltop fortress to congratulate
Maj. Saad Hadad, commander of Israel's
Christian militia allies.
" We achieved in 24 hours . . . what we esti-mated
would take twice as much time," Is-raeli
Army Chief of Staff Lt Gen. Rafael Ei- ta- n
said after the capture of Hasbaya.
On the northern Mediterranean coast, Is-raeli
troops and tanks stormed ashore in an
amphibious landing at the Alawi River, 16
miles ( 25.6 kilometers) south of Beirut, and
converged on Sidon, a base for about 2,500
Palestinian guerrillas.
Residents of the city of 200,000 given two
hours to flee began pouring out of Sidon on
trucks, buses and by foot under a barrage of
shells that flashed in the streets and set fire
to buildings.',
Bombed out cars and bodies littered the
road northward to the landing point " and vil-lagers
waved white flags as the Israeli tanks
and armored personnel carriers rumbled
through, UPI photographer Havakuk Levi- so- n
said.
In Beirut, rockets slammed into the sea-side
U. S. Embassy building, destroying an
unocccupied office on the sixth floor.
In Washington, State Department spokes-man
Alan Romberg said U. S. Navy ships, in-cluding
the aircraft carrier John F. Kenne-dy,
were dispatched from Rota, Spain, to the
eastern Mediterranean in case Americans
were to be evacuated from Lebanon.
The embassy said Sunday that half of its
staff would be evacuated from the country
for. their own protection and Reid confirmed
a " large group" of employees began leaving
Lebanon.
Romberg said the United States called on
, Israel to withdraw all its troops from Israel
and on the Palestinians to stop using Leb-anon
as a launching pad for attacks on the
Jewish state.
There was no indication Israel would com-ply
with the U. N. Security Council's unani-mous
resolution late Sunday calling for an
Israeli withdrawal and for both sides to re-spect
a cease- fir- e negotiated by special U. S.
envoy Philip Habib last July.
But Habib held what a White House aide
described as an " extensive and productive"
2 hour meeting with Begin in Jerusalem.
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Israeli warplanes bombed PLO tar-gets
in Beirut Monday and tanks
rumbled into the Lebanese port city
of Sidon. Israel claimed Beaufort
Castle and the town of Hasbaya. upinup
Columbian Bufford Seabolt tries to bum thread
Mountainmen- fes- t
By Ted Griggs
Missourian staff writer
It's not that strange standing
next to a mountainman who's
calmly pouring gunpowder into the
barrel of a Hawken muzzle- loadin- g
rifle.
It's not too peculiar that he's
wearing fringed buckskin pants,
moccasins . and an "
old- fashion- ed
linen shirt, or that he has a huge
Bowie knife swinging from his belt.
But when he pulls the ramrod
from the steel barrel, smiles and
says, " Care to shoot it?" suddenly
I remember this is 1982 and broken
shoulders are expensive to fix.
" Don't worry about the kick,"
mountainman Dean DeGraffenreid
assures me as I move up to the fir-ing
line. " It'll just push against
your arm; it won't break your
shoulder."
DeGraffenreid was among the
more than 75 weekend mountain- me- n
and antique rifle enthusiasts
gathered near Finger Lakes State
Park Saturday for the annual ren-dezvous
of the Boone's Sons Muz- zle- Load- ers
Thinking he is probably playing
some old- ti- me trick on a greenhorn
reporter, I hoist the highly polished
Hawken and aim at the orange rag
target 50 yards ( 45 meters) off in
the clearing.
" Don't jerk the trigger," I hear
him say behind me. " The trigger's
gentle, just squeeze it. "
" Fine," I think, " No problem.
I'll just count-- to five and shoot.
One, two " KABOOM! So much
for strategy. But as the smoke
clears and the roar dies away, I see
the rag swinging from its branch,
pierced by a rifle ball. My shoulder
is still in one piece.
" No accounting for dumb' luck, is
there?" I say to DeGraffenreid.
" I guess not," replies the moun-tainman.
The buckskin- cla- d history buffs
spent the weekend shooting vintage
rifles, throwing knives and toma-hawks,
lighting fires with flint- and- -'
steel and practicing other frontier
skills. Each was rated on perform-ance.
The grand prize winner was
Terry Smith of Tebbetts, Mo., who
was awarded a Green River .50 cal- -'
iber muzzle- loadin- g rifle barrel.
From the firing range, we move
over to the knife- throwi- ng pit,
Adam Jahiel photos
While a prospective customer looks at belts, bags, skins
and more, Mike " Bluehawk" Adams and partner Willie
" Medicine Hat" Ady; both of Sedalia, discuss hunting
weapons. Adams' wife, Belinda, " Morning Star," looks on.
Above left, handmade dolls were also sold.
where the aim is to skewer a play-ing
card with a hunting knife from
about 10 yards ( 9 meters) away.
DeGraffenreid aims his home-made
knife and whirls it end- over- e- nd
at the wooden target, where it
sticks with a thud.
" Now," he says, as I a step into
the ring, " aim it, then draw it back
slowly and throw it."
I' do as I was told and whirl the
knife off into the bushes.
" Not bad for the first time," he
says. " Now try aiming a little high
er."
Again the big blade sings through
the air. This time it nicks the bot-tom
edge of the target, where it
barely sticks.
" One more time," DeGraffen-reid
says. " It's bad luck to leave on
a lousy throw."
On my third throw the knife
bangs edgewise into the target and
drops to the dirt.
" I don't want to ruin your knife,"
I tell the mountainman. He agrees
and leaves me with my bad luck.
Ex- journali- sm prof,
editor is dead at 83
Taught 10 Pulitzer winners
By Diane Solov
Missourian staff writer
Eugene Sharp, for more than 40
years a journalism teacher at the
University and city editor of the Co-lumbia"
Missourian, died Sunday at
Boone Hospital Center. He was 83.
" He taught more students to be re-porters
than any man who ever
lived," said Milton Gross, retired as--,
sociate dean of the School of Jour-nalism
and himself a former student
of Mr. Sharp's. " That's what he did
for 45 years."
Mr. Sharp" taught journalism from
1924 until his retirement in 1969. He
was the city editor of the Missourian
for most of those years. He taught
more than 8,000 student reporters, at
least 10 of whom have gone on to win
Pulitzer prizes, journalism's highest
award.
Mrl Sharp is remembered by those
who worked beside him, those who
followed him, and those who were
taught by him as a professional who
taught with kindness and patience.
" He for many years was a symbol
of the professional discipline of this
school," said Dean Roy Fisher. " He
ran the city desk on a demanding
. schedule and helped to establish this
school as one noted for well- train- ed
. graduates."
Former Dean Eari. English char-acterized
Mr. Sharp in much the
same way. " As a city editor, I think
he will be remembered for his pro-fessionalism,"
and " perhaps equal-ly,
and almost unbelieveably, for his
patience, kindness and personal in-terest"
in his students, he said.
Mr. Sharp was born in Chicago to
Charles Eugene and Mabel Webster
Sharp on Dec. 31, 1898. He attended
grammar and high school in Wood-ward,
Okla., earned a bachelor's de-gree
from Princeton University in
1921, and worked for the Oklahoma
City Times and at the News- Capit- al
in McAlester, Okla., before coming
to the University. He earned his
bachelor- - of journalism degree in
1922 and a master's degree in 1926.
Besides teaching reporting, Mr.
Eugene Sharp
An educator for 40 years
Sharp was a pioneer in the field of in-ternational
news communication
and was the first in the nation to
teach a course on the subject.
Upon his retirement, a University
scholarship for journalism students
was established in his name, and he
was commended in a resolution by
the Missouri House of Representa-tives
for his " long, distinguished
service in education."
- Mr. Sharp was a member of the
( See JOURNALIST, P. 8A)
i
O'Connor goal
is embracing
states' rights
New York Times
WASHINGTON As she nears the
end of her first Supreme Court term,
Associate Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor has emerged as one of the
court's most ardent champions of
states' rights, a development with
important implications for a court in
the midst of re- examin- ing the bal-ance
of power between the states
and the federal government.
The first state court judge named
to the Supreme Court in 25 years,
Justice O'Connor is using her vote
and, increasingly, her pen to crit-icize
federal invasions of state " sov-ereignty"
and to advocate greater
deference by Congress and the fed-eral
judiciary to state courts and
state legislatures.
In both majority opinions and dis-sents;
she has expounded a vision of
" our federalism" that entails a di- minis- hed
federal presence, whether
as overseer of the fairness of state
criminal procedures or as arbiter of
whether a state is giving its citizens
( See O'CONNOR, P. 8A)
Council rejects
gay rights law
Supporter seeks referendum
By Andy Chabra and Dean J. Solov
Missourian staff writers
The City Council Monday defeated
5-- 2 an amendment to the city's anti-discrimination
law that would have
prohibited" discrimination based on
" affectional or sexual orientation."
The city's current anti- discriminat- ion
code includes protection from
discrimination based on sex, race
and religion.
Councilmen Al Tacker and Dick
Walls supported the amendment.
The Rev. Johannes DiMaria- Kuip-- er
of the Metropolitan Community- Churc- h
of Columbia a church that
serves the gay community said he
was disappointed despite the issue's
progress.
" Six years ago we couldn't get one
vote on the council and we couldn't
See related story, p. 8A "
get the issue past the Human Rights
Commission," DiMaria- Kuip- er said.
He said his next step would be to at-tempt
to bring the issue to a referen-dum.
Although the amendment lost,
some opponents were not satisfied
with the reasons given by coun-cilmen
who voted against it.
" I would have liked them to have
voted like Mr. ( Duane) Lammers,
on whetherit ( hombsexuaHity) is ei-ther
' morally right or morally
wrong," said Bob'Northup of the
Mountain Ziori Baptist Church.
Most dissenting councilmen cited
overwhelming opposition by resi-dents.
Others said they feared Co--
( SeeBOTH, P. 8A)
Bond issue question
tops today's ballot
By Karen M. Brown
Missourian staff writer
The ballot in today's election is
topped by a constitutional amend-ment
that would permit the state to
sell $ 600 million in bonds to finance
state facility construction and re-pair.
Supporters of the amendment, in-cluding
Gov. Christopher Bond, say
the bond issue would provide 57,000
jobs and generate more than $ 2 bil-lion
in economic activity. Opponents
argue that the state will not be able
to pay off bond debts and that higher
taxes will result
In addition, voters in various sec-tions
of Boone County will decide
whether Midway Heights School Dis-trict
will become part of the Colum-bia
Public School District and
whether a tax will be levied for the
Centralia Special Road District. Also
on me ballot are elections of direc-tors
for several water supply dis-tricts.
The bond issue appears on the bal-lot
as Constitutional Amendment No
1. If passed by a simple majority,
the amendment will allow the Legis-lature
to authorize the sale of up to
$ 600 million in general obligation
bonds for new and existing state fa-cilities.
The University stands to
gain considerably from the bond is-sue
sale. University officials, who
are wholeheartedly backing the
amendment, estimate the University
system would receive $ 71 million of
Polling places
All the usual Columbia poll-ing
places will be open for vot-ing
from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. to-day,
with two exceptions.
The exceptions are Broad-way
Christian School and St.
Andrews Lutheran Church,
neither of which are polling
places for today's special elect-ion.-
Instead, voters in Pre-cinct
4B will vote at Fairview
Elementary School, 909
Fairview Road, and voters in
Precinct 4E will vote at Rus-sell
Boulevard Elementary
School, 1800 W. Rollins Road.
County Clerk Chris Kelly
said he expects considerable
interest within Boone County
in the election, with residents
concerned about both the bond
issue and the Midway Heights
school annexation proposal.
Polling information can be
obtained by calling the League
Women Voters " between 8
Iof a. m. and 4 p. m. at 442- 360- 6.
the $ 141.6 million earmarked for
higher education.
If all the bonds were sold, the mea-sure
also would - provide approxi-mately
$ 120 million for repairs and
( See ACTUAL, P. 8A)
In town today
Noon Mustapha Troop, a free
belly dancing concert, Village
Square, Ninth and Walnut streets.
7 p. m. Board of Adjustment
meeting, City Council chambers
of the County- Cit- y Building.
7 pan. Land Clearance for Re-development
Authority meeting,
third floor conference room of the
County- Cit- y Building.
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Index
Business ............ 7A
Classified MB
Comics ........ ........ 6A
Opinion ........... ...... 4A
People . .... 5A
Sports . .1- 2- B
Theater ; JA I

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. STATE ataT-. HZCAl- . .".' iClST. Y
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'. . COLUMBIA,- SO- . 652; 1 .
74th Year No. 224 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, June 8, 1982 2 Sections 12 Pages 25 Cents
Israeli forces nearing Beirut
United Press International
Israel's jet fighters bombed PLO head-quarters
in Beirut and its invasion force
swept to within 16 miles ( 25.6 kilometers) of
the Lebanese capital Monday, storming Si- d- on
and seizing Tyre and key, Palestinian
strongholds in south Lebanon.
The United States said it was sending
warships into the eastern Mediterranean for
a possible naval evacuation of Americans af-ter
unidentified rockets hit the U. S. Embas-sy
in Beirut There were no casualties.
In Cairo, Egypt's President Hosni Muba-rak,
condemning the invasion as a " blatant .
violation of peace," froze the Palestinian au-tonomy
talks until all Israeli forces were
withdrawn from Lebanon.
Waves of Israeli fighter- bombe- rs hit Bei-rut
again and again throughout the af-ternoon,
pounding the sports stadium and
the Arab University both major bases and
offices of the Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion
and its leader, Yasser Arafat.
An estimated 20,000 Israeli troops, backed
by tanks, struck across southern and central
. Lebanon in the second day of a lightning,
multi- pronge- d invasion to wipe out the PLO
Jets bomb PLO strongholds
and it3 estimated 6,000 guerrillas.
The air strike the second on populated
areas of Beirut since Friday left the Leb-anese
capital blacked out. Beirut's interna-tional
airport was closed, its main runway
cratered by bombs.
Israel said its troops on the Mediterranean
stormed Sidon Lebanon's third largest
city and captured Tyre. Other Israeli col-umns
seized the towns of Hasbaya and Naba- tiy- e
in central Lebanon and the Crusader- er- a
Beaufort Castle overlooking the Israeli bor-der.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa denied
that Tyre and Nabatiyeh had fallen. It con-ceded
street fighting in Nabatiyeh, but said
Israeli troops were being' held outside Tyre
by Palestinian guerrillas, estimated to num-ber
1,500. After the fall of Beaufort, Israel's
Prime Minister Menachem Begin flew by he-licopter
to the hilltop fortress to congratulate
Maj. Saad Hadad, commander of Israel's
Christian militia allies.
" We achieved in 24 hours . . . what we esti-mated
would take twice as much time," Is-raeli
Army Chief of Staff Lt Gen. Rafael Ei- ta- n
said after the capture of Hasbaya.
On the northern Mediterranean coast, Is-raeli
troops and tanks stormed ashore in an
amphibious landing at the Alawi River, 16
miles ( 25.6 kilometers) south of Beirut, and
converged on Sidon, a base for about 2,500
Palestinian guerrillas.
Residents of the city of 200,000 given two
hours to flee began pouring out of Sidon on
trucks, buses and by foot under a barrage of
shells that flashed in the streets and set fire
to buildings.',
Bombed out cars and bodies littered the
road northward to the landing point " and vil-lagers
waved white flags as the Israeli tanks
and armored personnel carriers rumbled
through, UPI photographer Havakuk Levi- so- n
said.
In Beirut, rockets slammed into the sea-side
U. S. Embassy building, destroying an
unocccupied office on the sixth floor.
In Washington, State Department spokes-man
Alan Romberg said U. S. Navy ships, in-cluding
the aircraft carrier John F. Kenne-dy,
were dispatched from Rota, Spain, to the
eastern Mediterranean in case Americans
were to be evacuated from Lebanon.
The embassy said Sunday that half of its
staff would be evacuated from the country
for. their own protection and Reid confirmed
a " large group" of employees began leaving
Lebanon.
Romberg said the United States called on
, Israel to withdraw all its troops from Israel
and on the Palestinians to stop using Leb-anon
as a launching pad for attacks on the
Jewish state.
There was no indication Israel would com-ply
with the U. N. Security Council's unani-mous
resolution late Sunday calling for an
Israeli withdrawal and for both sides to re-spect
a cease- fir- e negotiated by special U. S.
envoy Philip Habib last July.
But Habib held what a White House aide
described as an " extensive and productive"
2 hour meeting with Begin in Jerusalem.
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Israeli warplanes bombed PLO tar-gets
in Beirut Monday and tanks
rumbled into the Lebanese port city
of Sidon. Israel claimed Beaufort
Castle and the town of Hasbaya. upinup
Columbian Bufford Seabolt tries to bum thread
Mountainmen- fes- t
By Ted Griggs
Missourian staff writer
It's not that strange standing
next to a mountainman who's
calmly pouring gunpowder into the
barrel of a Hawken muzzle- loadin- g
rifle.
It's not too peculiar that he's
wearing fringed buckskin pants,
moccasins . and an "
old- fashion- ed
linen shirt, or that he has a huge
Bowie knife swinging from his belt.
But when he pulls the ramrod
from the steel barrel, smiles and
says, " Care to shoot it?" suddenly
I remember this is 1982 and broken
shoulders are expensive to fix.
" Don't worry about the kick,"
mountainman Dean DeGraffenreid
assures me as I move up to the fir-ing
line. " It'll just push against
your arm; it won't break your
shoulder."
DeGraffenreid was among the
more than 75 weekend mountain- me- n
and antique rifle enthusiasts
gathered near Finger Lakes State
Park Saturday for the annual ren-dezvous
of the Boone's Sons Muz- zle- Load- ers
Thinking he is probably playing
some old- ti- me trick on a greenhorn
reporter, I hoist the highly polished
Hawken and aim at the orange rag
target 50 yards ( 45 meters) off in
the clearing.
" Don't jerk the trigger," I hear
him say behind me. " The trigger's
gentle, just squeeze it. "
" Fine," I think, " No problem.
I'll just count-- to five and shoot.
One, two " KABOOM! So much
for strategy. But as the smoke
clears and the roar dies away, I see
the rag swinging from its branch,
pierced by a rifle ball. My shoulder
is still in one piece.
" No accounting for dumb' luck, is
there?" I say to DeGraffenreid.
" I guess not," replies the moun-tainman.
The buckskin- cla- d history buffs
spent the weekend shooting vintage
rifles, throwing knives and toma-hawks,
lighting fires with flint- and- -'
steel and practicing other frontier
skills. Each was rated on perform-ance.
The grand prize winner was
Terry Smith of Tebbetts, Mo., who
was awarded a Green River .50 cal- -'
iber muzzle- loadin- g rifle barrel.
From the firing range, we move
over to the knife- throwi- ng pit,
Adam Jahiel photos
While a prospective customer looks at belts, bags, skins
and more, Mike " Bluehawk" Adams and partner Willie
" Medicine Hat" Ady; both of Sedalia, discuss hunting
weapons. Adams' wife, Belinda, " Morning Star," looks on.
Above left, handmade dolls were also sold.
where the aim is to skewer a play-ing
card with a hunting knife from
about 10 yards ( 9 meters) away.
DeGraffenreid aims his home-made
knife and whirls it end- over- e- nd
at the wooden target, where it
sticks with a thud.
" Now," he says, as I a step into
the ring, " aim it, then draw it back
slowly and throw it."
I' do as I was told and whirl the
knife off into the bushes.
" Not bad for the first time," he
says. " Now try aiming a little high
er."
Again the big blade sings through
the air. This time it nicks the bot-tom
edge of the target, where it
barely sticks.
" One more time," DeGraffen-reid
says. " It's bad luck to leave on
a lousy throw."
On my third throw the knife
bangs edgewise into the target and
drops to the dirt.
" I don't want to ruin your knife,"
I tell the mountainman. He agrees
and leaves me with my bad luck.
Ex- journali- sm prof,
editor is dead at 83
Taught 10 Pulitzer winners
By Diane Solov
Missourian staff writer
Eugene Sharp, for more than 40
years a journalism teacher at the
University and city editor of the Co-lumbia"
Missourian, died Sunday at
Boone Hospital Center. He was 83.
" He taught more students to be re-porters
than any man who ever
lived," said Milton Gross, retired as--,
sociate dean of the School of Jour-nalism
and himself a former student
of Mr. Sharp's. " That's what he did
for 45 years."
Mr. Sharp" taught journalism from
1924 until his retirement in 1969. He
was the city editor of the Missourian
for most of those years. He taught
more than 8,000 student reporters, at
least 10 of whom have gone on to win
Pulitzer prizes, journalism's highest
award.
Mrl Sharp is remembered by those
who worked beside him, those who
followed him, and those who were
taught by him as a professional who
taught with kindness and patience.
" He for many years was a symbol
of the professional discipline of this
school," said Dean Roy Fisher. " He
ran the city desk on a demanding
. schedule and helped to establish this
school as one noted for well- train- ed
. graduates."
Former Dean Eari. English char-acterized
Mr. Sharp in much the
same way. " As a city editor, I think
he will be remembered for his pro-fessionalism,"
and " perhaps equal-ly,
and almost unbelieveably, for his
patience, kindness and personal in-terest"
in his students, he said.
Mr. Sharp was born in Chicago to
Charles Eugene and Mabel Webster
Sharp on Dec. 31, 1898. He attended
grammar and high school in Wood-ward,
Okla., earned a bachelor's de-gree
from Princeton University in
1921, and worked for the Oklahoma
City Times and at the News- Capit- al
in McAlester, Okla., before coming
to the University. He earned his
bachelor- - of journalism degree in
1922 and a master's degree in 1926.
Besides teaching reporting, Mr.
Eugene Sharp
An educator for 40 years
Sharp was a pioneer in the field of in-ternational
news communication
and was the first in the nation to
teach a course on the subject.
Upon his retirement, a University
scholarship for journalism students
was established in his name, and he
was commended in a resolution by
the Missouri House of Representa-tives
for his " long, distinguished
service in education."
- Mr. Sharp was a member of the
( See JOURNALIST, P. 8A)
i
O'Connor goal
is embracing
states' rights
New York Times
WASHINGTON As she nears the
end of her first Supreme Court term,
Associate Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor has emerged as one of the
court's most ardent champions of
states' rights, a development with
important implications for a court in
the midst of re- examin- ing the bal-ance
of power between the states
and the federal government.
The first state court judge named
to the Supreme Court in 25 years,
Justice O'Connor is using her vote
and, increasingly, her pen to crit-icize
federal invasions of state " sov-ereignty"
and to advocate greater
deference by Congress and the fed-eral
judiciary to state courts and
state legislatures.
In both majority opinions and dis-sents;
she has expounded a vision of
" our federalism" that entails a di- minis- hed
federal presence, whether
as overseer of the fairness of state
criminal procedures or as arbiter of
whether a state is giving its citizens
( See O'CONNOR, P. 8A)
Council rejects
gay rights law
Supporter seeks referendum
By Andy Chabra and Dean J. Solov
Missourian staff writers
The City Council Monday defeated
5-- 2 an amendment to the city's anti-discrimination
law that would have
prohibited" discrimination based on
" affectional or sexual orientation."
The city's current anti- discriminat- ion
code includes protection from
discrimination based on sex, race
and religion.
Councilmen Al Tacker and Dick
Walls supported the amendment.
The Rev. Johannes DiMaria- Kuip-- er
of the Metropolitan Community- Churc- h
of Columbia a church that
serves the gay community said he
was disappointed despite the issue's
progress.
" Six years ago we couldn't get one
vote on the council and we couldn't
See related story, p. 8A "
get the issue past the Human Rights
Commission," DiMaria- Kuip- er said.
He said his next step would be to at-tempt
to bring the issue to a referen-dum.
Although the amendment lost,
some opponents were not satisfied
with the reasons given by coun-cilmen
who voted against it.
" I would have liked them to have
voted like Mr. ( Duane) Lammers,
on whetherit ( hombsexuaHity) is ei-ther
' morally right or morally
wrong," said Bob'Northup of the
Mountain Ziori Baptist Church.
Most dissenting councilmen cited
overwhelming opposition by resi-dents.
Others said they feared Co--
( SeeBOTH, P. 8A)
Bond issue question
tops today's ballot
By Karen M. Brown
Missourian staff writer
The ballot in today's election is
topped by a constitutional amend-ment
that would permit the state to
sell $ 600 million in bonds to finance
state facility construction and re-pair.
Supporters of the amendment, in-cluding
Gov. Christopher Bond, say
the bond issue would provide 57,000
jobs and generate more than $ 2 bil-lion
in economic activity. Opponents
argue that the state will not be able
to pay off bond debts and that higher
taxes will result
In addition, voters in various sec-tions
of Boone County will decide
whether Midway Heights School Dis-trict
will become part of the Colum-bia
Public School District and
whether a tax will be levied for the
Centralia Special Road District. Also
on me ballot are elections of direc-tors
for several water supply dis-tricts.
The bond issue appears on the bal-lot
as Constitutional Amendment No
1. If passed by a simple majority,
the amendment will allow the Legis-lature
to authorize the sale of up to
$ 600 million in general obligation
bonds for new and existing state fa-cilities.
The University stands to
gain considerably from the bond is-sue
sale. University officials, who
are wholeheartedly backing the
amendment, estimate the University
system would receive $ 71 million of
Polling places
All the usual Columbia poll-ing
places will be open for vot-ing
from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. to-day,
with two exceptions.
The exceptions are Broad-way
Christian School and St.
Andrews Lutheran Church,
neither of which are polling
places for today's special elect-ion.-
Instead, voters in Pre-cinct
4B will vote at Fairview
Elementary School, 909
Fairview Road, and voters in
Precinct 4E will vote at Rus-sell
Boulevard Elementary
School, 1800 W. Rollins Road.
County Clerk Chris Kelly
said he expects considerable
interest within Boone County
in the election, with residents
concerned about both the bond
issue and the Midway Heights
school annexation proposal.
Polling information can be
obtained by calling the League
Women Voters " between 8
Iof a. m. and 4 p. m. at 442- 360- 6.
the $ 141.6 million earmarked for
higher education.
If all the bonds were sold, the mea-sure
also would - provide approxi-mately
$ 120 million for repairs and
( See ACTUAL, P. 8A)
In town today
Noon Mustapha Troop, a free
belly dancing concert, Village
Square, Ninth and Walnut streets.
7 p. m. Board of Adjustment
meeting, City Council chambers
of the County- Cit- y Building.
7 pan. Land Clearance for Re-development
Authority meeting,
third floor conference room of the
County- Cit- y Building.
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